Ubisoft: 6700K/1700X & 980/Vega56 are REQUIRED for 1080p60 in AC Origins, 1070/V64 for 1440p60

[Master Disaster]

Ubisoft officially responded to the 100% CPU usage claims over on their forums.

 

A Ubisoft employee posted the following statement

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Assassin's Creed Origins: Performance Configurations

 

 We closely monitor your feedback and are actively investigating each case brought to our attention so far. Due to the varying setups of PC rigs, we need to assess them individually.

 

 We’ve been asked for a reference as to what hardware you would need to run the game in around 60fps. Below are two configurations of hardware we have used as a benchmark for running the game at 1080p or 1440p.

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Hardware of this level or higher is required to meet this performance, however, a combination of these will provide different results. Please also note that your type of PC components should not range too far from each other. For example, if you have a GTX980 but using a processor that is lower than the recommended, you will most likely not be able to meet 60 FPS. We encourage you to reach out to Customer Support and provide us with as much detail as you can such as PC configuration details and dxdiag information.

We will continue to deliver updates whenever the learnings from a specific case can be valuable to everyone.

https://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/1779591-Assassin-s-Creed-Origins-Performance-Configurations?p=13068550

 

Lol, users are going nuts asking why Ubisoft post requirements that vastly differ from these before the game launched.

 

Ubisoft came so far and then they go and do this.

[Damascus]

Cute, ubisoft has just finished off the doddering, desperate and dying thing they once called a "reputation"

 

[Jurrunio]

Probably because their games' optimization are terrible so high end machines are required.

[Damascus]

 

3 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

Probably because their games' optimization are terrible so high end machines are required.

To be fair this is 1440p high settings

[joshfrog]

there has being alot of talk that its the DRM they used that runs non stop forcing such high needs.

 

[Master Disaster]

4 minutes ago, Damascus said:

 

To be fair this is 1440p high settings

I agree the 1440p specs are within range but a 6700K & 980 for 1080p? Something is wrong there.

[Jurrunio]

9 minutes ago, Damascus said:

 

To be fair this is 1440p high settings

1440p spec is understandable. 1080p is what gets me. 

[joshfrog]

i wonder how this will effect sales and the amount of returns they get. i dont think most gamers run that highend of hardware given the cost of it.

[D13H4RD]

Well, seems like some never learn...

 

Funnily enough, some of my Nep friends were discussing over the requirements for Cyberdimension.

 

Minimum CPU required is a 3770K while the minimum GPU required is a GTX 660 and also 8GB of system memory. 

 

Recommended? Core i7 3770K, GTX 960 and 10GB of system memory.

 

The game itself doesn't even look all that intensive to need a card that GTA V recommends. The Nep games on PC are just not well-optimized, with one causing my old system's GT 750M to crash after a while. 

[Majestic]

Their requirements never specified it was targetting 60. Which is my main gripe with this, it did not explicity said 1080p30 in the requirement notes. The fact the requirements are raised for 60fps means the original ones were meant to be 1080p30 @ high and 720p30 @ low. Honestly, that's the only fault Ubisoft made. And all these conspiracies about VMprotect and Denuvo are absolutely baseless.

Now can we please focus our attention again on their shitty lootboxes instead? You people are so easily distracted, my word.

[Thony]

Another AC game ? How many have they released by now, 10 ?! This game and “Fast and Furious” movie are just ridiculous. In my own opinion only.

[Humbug]

28 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

I agree the 1440p specs are within range but a 6700K & 980 for 1080p? Something is wrong there.

You reacted to the GTX 980 claim LOL.

They also mentioned Vega56 for 1080p. Which is silly because Vega56 is generally faster than the GTX 1070 which they recommend for 1440p.

 

I know Ubisoft has a bad history of Nvidia gameworks but still.

[ApolloFury]

Is no one going to notice that there is a massive gap between a GTX 980 and V56? A RX580 is comparable to the GTX 980 and V56 is comparable to a GTX 980Ti.

Edited November 4, 2017 by ApolloFury
fixed grammarz and spellingz

[Humbug]

The below is 1080p very high. Whereas the article talks about merely high settings...

 

 

So you obviously don't need to a vega56 for 1080p.

 

What this game does benefit from on the CPU side is lots of threads as shown below. So i5 users may struggle.

 

 

Whether the above requirement of lots of threads is due to genuine game logic, or because it allows the DRM process to be run without taking CPU time from game logic I don't know.

[Armakar]

good thing i've got my 1080Ti and 8700k then :^)

[Master Disaster]

5 minutes ago, ApolloFury said:

Is no one is going to notice that there is a massive gap between a GTX 980 and V56? A RX580 is comparable to the GTX 980 and V56 is comparable to a GTX 980Ti.

Its an Nvidia Gameworks title so Ubi probably concentrated on optimising for Nvidia cards.

[MyName13]

Is this the first game that won't run on g4560+GTX 1050 ti?

 

Edit: a game that was designed for far weaker console CPUs requires last generations fastest CPU and a modern octa core?Do people even believe them?I'm also surprised they require GTX 1060/Rx 580 and last generations high end to run it at 60 fps (at high details).

[Majestic]

2 minutes ago, Humbug said:

The below is 1080p maxed out. Whereas the article talks about merely high settings...

So you obviously don't need to a vega56 for 1080p.

I don't like these video's. Youtube compression makes it impossible to tell a visual difference, so they can fuck with the settings.

Or not even display the currect GPU's in the first place.

[Master Disaster]

3 minutes ago, Armakar said:

good thing i've got my 1080Ti and 8700k then :^)

Where in holy hell did you manage to get an 8700K?

 

I am upgrading after Christmas. I upgrade every 2 generations and the 8700K is my next move.

[Humbug]

Just now, Majestic said:

I don't like these video's. Youtube compression makes it impossible to tell a visual difference, so they can fuck with the settings.

That's true. It's based on trust.

The chances are that it's true.

There is always a small chance that he is lying.

[Bcat00]

K i just had a look at the gameplay for this, there's now way it would require that level of hardware for simple 1080p.

Either someone on Ubisoft screwed up hard and posted the wrong spec requirement or they are doing something really wrong in their optimization. 

[Master Disaster]

2 minutes ago, Majestic said:

I don't like these video's. Youtube compression makes it impossible to tell a visual difference, so they can fuck with the settings.

Or not even display the currect GPU's in the first place.

The same can be aid about any review, you don't know if the person even ran the tests at all or if they just threw a handful of rice at a sheet with some numbers written on it and saw where the rice landed. The smart persons takes an average of many reviews to filter out the bad data.

 

2 minutes ago, Humbug said:

That's true. It's based on trust.

The chances are that it's true.

There is always a small chance that he is lying.

Exactly.

[Armakar]

5 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Where in holy hell did you manage to get an 8700K?

 

I am upgrading after Christmas. I upgrade every 2 generations and the 8700K is my next move.

If you hunt enough, you'll find one. I found a site (alza.co.uk) that occasionally gets them in somehow.

[mr moose]

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

Probably because their games' optimization are terrible so high end machines are required.

Optimised?  they aren't even finished let alone optimised.

 

1 hour ago, Majestic said:

 You people are so easily distracted, my word.

 

Please, tell us again what you think of us, but this time don't hold back. 

[Jurrunio]

2 minutes ago, mr moose said:

Optimised?  they aren't even finished let alone optimised.

 

It's not the first poorly optimized game from Ubisoft. AC Unity and Watch Dogs both run poorly. The fact that they set up such a high requirement means instead of improving their weakness, Ubi is resorting to making people play with better hardware.